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HEALTH

PGI explains position on CBI raid
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 10
PGI administrative officials stayed up till late night yesterday to prepare answers for queries posed by the Union Health Ministry for certain questions which are likely to come up in the current session of the Parliament within a day or two. The answers to these questions were dispatched to the ministry today.

According to sources, regarding clarification about the CBI raid on the PGI cath lab, PGI officials have informed the ministry that they were in no position to give an adequate reply to this query as the investigations were being carried out by the CBI.

It may be mentioned that the CBI had recovered more than 100 unaccounted stents, balloons, pacemakers and other items during the search operation conducted on June 20 last. The total worth of these items was said to be more than Rs 1 crore. Following this, the CBI had also issued notifications in the press asking the patients to report discrepancies, if any, against the functioning of the Cardiology and the Cardio Vascular departments of the PGI.

The Union Health Ministry had also sought to know the details of the certain allegations made by the PGI Employees Union . The union had been alleging that the institute authorities had fabricated charges against as many as 12 Class III and IV employees and had dismissed them from the service.

Sources add that the PGI authorities have written to the ministry saying that all charges against the employees were factual and action against the dismissed employees had been taken after conducting thorough investigations .

SPORTS

Indo-UK roller hockey tie on Aug 12
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 10
Kailash Bahl DAV Centenary School, Sector 7 is being decked up to become the proud host to the India- England friendly roller hockey tie to be held at the school on August 12. Disclosing this, Ms Madhu Bahl, Principal of the school, said her cherished dream to encourage skating was now fulfilled as they will have an exhibition of finest game from a team from UK at the international standard skating rink in their school premises. She expressed gratitude to the Roller Skating Federation of India for allotting the national roller hockey camp to their school. The first camp had been held in June and the second camp started here today. She said the camp would continue till August 24.

Football tournament

St Stephen’s School, Sector 45 and Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, surged ahead in the football events of the Fanta Fiesta organised by Kandhari Beverages began here today at Football Stadium, Sector 10. Earlier the event got off to a flying start with large participation of enthusiastic children.

The various results are: Sanjay Public Sr Sec School-44 b St John’s High School 12-1- scorers-Chetan Thakur with five goals.

SD Public school, Sector 32 b St Soldier’s-28 4-0 (Gopal 2 goals); St Stepehn’s-45 b St Xavier’s-44 3-2 (Wankessan 2 goals); YPS SAS Nagar b GHMS-16 3-0 (Sukhdeep Sandhu 2 goals).

Badminton meet

The inter-schools badminton meet organised by the District Badminton Association, Panchkula, began here today at sector 7 Community Centre with Hansraj Public School, Sector 6 Panchkula winning their five first round matches out of the seven held today.

In boys under19, under14, girls under 10 and girls under 19, HPS players won with ease. In boys under 14 and girls under 14, Little Flower School, Sector 14, Panchkula, also won their respective matches while DC Model SS School, Sector 7, won its matches in under 14 section.

The results are: girls under 10: HPS b Sacred Heart School-26, Chandigarh 2-1; under 14:LFS-14 Panchkula b St Xavier’s School-Panchkula 2-0; under 19: HPS, P b Gyan Jyoti School, SAS Nagar 2-0.

Boys: under 14:HPS b MRASS-27 2-0; LFS, Panchkula b Shishu Niketan 2-0. DCM SS b St Xavier’s 2-0. Under 19 : HPS b Shishu Niketan 2-0.

Carrom championship

As many as 128 players, including 28 women players, will vie for top honours in the Panchkula District Carrom championship which will begin tomorrow at Saupin’s School, Sector 9, Panchkula. The two day meet will be organised by Panchkula District Carrom Association.

Vollyball team selected

Markfed has selected a 16-member volleyball team after a rigorous selection camp held at Sector 7. The players are; Bhag Singh-Captain, Ashok Kumar, Bahal Singh, Paramjit Singh, Prabhdeep Singh, Gurinderjit Singh, Anil Kumar, Devinder Singh, Shyam Lal, Parminder Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Lila Ram, G.S. Minhas, Balam Singh, Gurmit Singh and Banarsi Dass. This was stated by Mr Rajinder Bansal Sports officer, Markfed.

Five-a-side football meet

The Bangiya Sanskriti Sammilani will hold a five-a-side football tournament beginning tomorrow at Banga Bhawan, Sector 35. This five-day event will have 18 teams from different parts of the city.

ADMINISTRATION

CM opens 2 community centres, dispensary
Our Correspondent

Panchkula, August 10
The Haryana government will make best possible efforts to provide desirable packages for farmers for their produce. For this the government has given a representation to the Prime Minister seeking hike in the minimum support price of paddy.

This was stated by Mr Om Prakash Chautala, Haryana Chief Minister, while addressing media persons after inaugurating two community centres and a civil dispensary in the township here today.

The CM commented that the country used to import a huge quantity of foodgrains from other countries but now the Indian farmer has become self-dependent. He revealed that at present 615 lakh metric tonnes of foodgrains have been stored in godowns. He claimed that 7.15 lakh metric tonnes had been damaged due to shortage of sufficient godowns in Haryana alone.

Mr Chautala said that the present government will complete its tenure. The rally organised by the Haryana Congress at Nuh was a flop show, he said.

To provide better health services to the people of the region, a new hospital with ultra-modern facilities would be set up in Panchkula with the aid of the Central Government, disclosed Mr Chautala.

Earlier, he inaugurated a community centre which came up at the cost of Rs 29 lakh in Sector 21, and another one in Sector 11 at the cost of the Rs 24 lakh. A civil dispensary in Sector 10 was also inaugurated.

Apart from local residents, Mr Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Agriculture Minister, Mr Pradeep Chaudhary, General Secretary of INLD, Mr Bhaskar Chatterjee, Commissioner, Town and Country Planning, Mrs Jyoti Arora, Deputy Commissioner and senior officials were also present on the occasion.

DPC meeting to select CE on Aug 21
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 10
The much-awaited departmental promotional committee (DPC) meeting to appoint a regular UT Chief Engineer has been scheduled for August 21.

The meeting will be held in Chandigarh with the UPSC sending its nominee. From the Chandigarh Administration, the Home Secretary and the Finance Secretary will participate. The issue of holding a DPC to select a Chief Engineer has been hanging fire since October last year.

On March 31, when Mr R.K. Jain retired as Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjit Singh was handed over charge on a current duty charge basis. The DPC has been postponed at least five times in the past 10 months.